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York has some great cinemas, and, while going to the pictures is by far the most expensive way to view them, there’s nothing quite like the experience of seeing films on the big screen. There are ways to do it cheaply, such as the classic Orange Wednesdays, available at City Screen and Vue. If you join City Screen’s student club in Week 1, you can get discounts for the whole year and E4 Slacker’s club membership, while you can see “the latest movies at rock bottom prices” at Reel Monday and Wednesday.
Many online companies, such as Love Film offer free trials, though you need to make sure you cancel in time so you don't have to pay for a month's rental. But the best place to rent films is actually the library – they have a vast selection of films (and TV, for that matter) on DVD and it’s completely free to borrow them, as long as you manage to get out of bed to return it by 11am the next day.
Of course if you’re feeling extra lazy, you can always browse the collections of some of your fellow students. Most people will bring at least a few DVDs to university, but every corridor or house will have that one person that has a shelf full of them (usually in alphabetical order). Get some people together, buy some overpriced snacks from Costcutter and gather round someone’s laptop for a film marathon. A person’s taste in films can tell you a lot about them, so it can be a great way to get to know people.
But by far the best way to see new films at York is YSC. For only £3, you’ll get to see a film on a big screen without even having to leave campus. The selection of films shown is always varied and interesting – this term, there’s the usual mix of classics (like Silence of the Lambs) and recent releases (including Inception and Toy Story 3). Personally, I’ve seen films there that I’d never have seen anywhere else (Let the Right One In) or that I’d missed in the cinema (An Education). YSC’s website now has a schedule of all the delights they have on offer for us this coming term.
Now you have so many ways of seeing films cheaply that your only problem will be which ones to choose. I think the brilliant film reviewers here at The Yorker might be able to help you with that, too.
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